The aim of this study was to examine the effects of social support, perceived
control, locus of control and demand on adopting coping strategies to deal with workto-
family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC). A questionnaire was
administered to Turkish dual-career couples with diverse occupational backgrounds
(N = 300). Results suggested that (a) those who received social supported adopt
problem-focused coping strategies through the effect of having high perceived
control, (b) those with external locus of control adopted emotion-focused coping
strategies which in turn increased family-to-work conflict, but not such relationship
was observed on work-to-family conflict, and (c) work/home demands moderated the
relationship between perceived control and coping strategies only when it was
measured as a combination of both self-reports and objective demand indices.
Practical implications of the findings are discussed along with the limitations of the
study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611333/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2009 |
| Creators | Demokan, Alev |
| Contributors | Sumer, H. Canan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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